All-American Quotes

It was hard for me to do the show (All-American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show and the host said, "Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?" So I looked at the camera and said, "Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate." (Margaret Cho)
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think. View quote
Farrah Fawcett
I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well! View quote
David Hasselhoff
My father was an all-American football player. View quote
Edwin Moses
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever. View quote
JoBeth Williams
There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking. View quote
Major Owens
We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American. View quote
Nick Robinson
I was the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriend's apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them and thought, "Gee, this is weird; people saying things against America?" It was an awakening. On the East Coast, I'd never even heard of conscientious objectors. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We're so inconsistent about what we let kill ya. "Smoking? Must be eradicated. Marijuana? Zero tolerance." But there's lots of ways to kill yourself. You know what I think kills you? Stress, and being a workaholic, and never getting laid, and, uh, McDonalds, and staying mad at people, and lying for a living, and three-martini lunches, and the all-American breakfast, and whatever the fuck Elvis was doing. That's what kills you. View quote
Bill Maher
Reyna had always thought of Jason Grace as the all-American boy. Thalia looked more like the girl who robbed all-American boys at knifepoint in an alley. (Rick Riordan)
I'm all-American. Sexy but not intimidating. Not the kind of woman who's going to steal someone's husband. View quote
Cindy Crawford
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word. View quote
Harvey Pekar
The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic. View quote
Tommy Hilfiger
I give myself a cheat day where I annihilate my diet. I'm an all-American girl, so I go for a burger and fries and a shake. View quote
Ashley Wagner
I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face. View quote
Debra Winger
At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within. View quote
Dirk Benedict
I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records. View quote
Dot Jones
I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess. View quote
Erin Cummings
James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols. View quote
Jon Landau
I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it. (Robert Griffin III)
Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul? View quote
Tina Brown
Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy. View quote
William Zabka
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same. View quote
Andy Roddick